Diana Vreeland: the Modern Woman: The Bazaar Years, 1936-1962
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The first Vreeland book to focus on her three decades at Harper's Bazaar, where the legendary editor...
Turing and the Universal Machine: The Making of the Modern Computer
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The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and most famously with the...
Teach Yourself Complete Persian (Modern Persian/Farsi)
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Do you want to be able to speak, read and write Farsi (Modern Persian) confidently? All you need is...
Liquid Power: Contested Hydro-Modernities in Twentieth-Century Spain
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In this book, Erik Swyngedouw explores how water becomes part of the tumultuous processes of...
Locale, Everyday Islam and Modernity: Qasbah Towns and Muslim Life in Colonial India
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Scholarship has mostly privileged larger cities as the leading centres in India at the expense of...
Races to Modernity: Metropolitan Aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890 - 1940
Jan C. Behrends and Martin Kohlrausch
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The comparative presentation of the birth of metropolises like St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Kiev,...
Eccentric Modernisms: Making Differences in the History of American Art
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"What if we ascribe significance to aesthetic and social divergences rather than waving them aside...
Japanese Robot Culture: Performance, Imagination, and Modernity: 2016
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Japanese Robot Culture examines social robots in Japan, those in public, domestic, and artistic...
Staging Modernist Lives: H.D., Mina Loy, Nancy Cunard, Three Plays and Criticism
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Three modernist women, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961), Mina Loy (1882-1966), and Nancy Cunard...
The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory
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The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory traces the creation...